I wanted it to look like the machine had its own Vault-Tec power source, so I built a miniature cold fusion reactor into the coin door. Then I got carried away and turned the rest into a Chem Dispenser—Nuka-Cola cap and dose vial included. 😅
This is the working prototype: the reactor is hand-painted, but the artwork is still printed on regular paper while I wait for the professional magnetic overlay.
Next up: a startup lighting effect with light converging from both ends toward the center, inspired by the show.
Does it feel like something you’d find in a Vault? Curious to hear what you’d change or add!

https://youtube.com/shorts/LS8e-9Dr7X4?is=e2UOBl3--NrEyDbw

I've followed the video on youtube titled How To Enjoy Fallout 1 TODAY. It ran once without issue. I closed the game and restarted it and received an error message: Error initializing vidoe mode 1280x720. I also tried running the original version of 1 and 2.

2 seems to start up without issue but 1doesnt play the intro vid, instead it goes straigh to the title screen but shows up as four small tiles with missing chunks of art in each tile. I'm curious as to whether anyone has come across this issue and what may be a possible solution. I was hoping I'd get to play tonight but it seems I'll have to troubleshoot in the morning. Any help is appreciated

I was just messing around with Claude and ended up building a launcher for Fallout 2. Figured I'd share since some of you might find it useful, but I want to be upfront about what it actually is.

It's vibecoded. I described what I wanted, Claude wrote the code, I tested it and told it what was broken. these mods already work fine by hand-editing fallout2.cfg, sfall ini files, ddraw.ini, and so on, and dropping files in the right folders. This just puts a GUI on top of that. You click toggles instead of opening a text editor. Under the hood it's still writing the same config files you'd write yourself.

It can install and switch between CE, et Tu, Sonora, and Nevada as one-click installs from a sidebar, and RPU installs as an overlay on top of CE since it's not a separate campaign, just a content pack. So if you want to go from vanilla to Et Tu and back, it's a couple clicks instead of juggling folders.

Repo's at github.com/cerels/Fallout-2-CL if anyone wants to poke at it

In a shootout under Maltese Falcon. His rifle was missed in later gunfights. But Tycho went upholding the law, which seemed fitting.

Dogmeat ran into a moat of radioactive goo, the dumb mutt. He was a the best boy and deserved better.

Katja was gunned down by a supermutants minigun burst in a military base. Didn’t have a chance. I shouldnt have brought her along to begin with. 14mm pistol and leather armor against the threats we were facing was madness.

And i should have told Ian to go as well. I knew it would not end happy. But accidentally cutting him in half while aiming the laser gatling at masters pet was not what I expected. His passing hurt the most, knowing it was fully my fault.

Now, nothing remains but the end.

Hi all! i recently got the classic games for the first time (FO1 and FO2) and i feel a bit out of my depth, do y'all have any tips, tricks, anything honestly. Im trying to play through all the games in order so i am trying me best.

(currently on my first play through of fallout 1 with fixt installed)

To quote the late Shah of Iran "Listen to me. They make anybody and everybody over there. And the way that they do it, it's all fucked up".

Currently watching How To Enjoy FALLOUT 1 Today on you tube by GamerPoets and I'm happy I purchased the bundle through GOG. Looking forward to installing mods but I'm worried about straying too far from Vanilla. I'm aware that modding is all about making it your own but I only want to add stuff that feels like it belongs . The video feels like a very good intro but I'm curious as to whether there's more mods out there that feel like they were meant to be a part of the game. Any recommendations are appreciated

Have always wanted full combined maps of every location from the first two games since I saw the scale in Zomboid. Need feedback and any tips. Will keep uploading and working on these until they're all done. The Den, Vault City, and Arroyo were done already by u/Witchunter42_SK, who disappeared 5 years ago, so check those out too.

According to behind the scenes interviews the Military Base was based on the now defunct Fort Ord which was just outside of Monterey CA, but the name implies it is meant to be located in Mariposa CA. The map markers in 1 or 2 is in neither of these locations, but the classic Fallout maps are wonky so I wouldn't put too much stock in that.

I'm working on a map for a personal project and would like any opinions on this. The location of the Military Base will inevitably effect the locations of Vault 13 and Shady Sands since they are in parallel.

I'm playing tactics with Redux mod (I did copy the rectruits from the Equilibrium though) on Hard/Tough Guy/STB.

I'm completely stuck at trying to save Gorgi (ghoul brother) in Quincy. Two beastlords are standing next to him (hunting rifle and .45 pistol) and just one-shot him out of the blue as I'm sneaking in. I'll try running in on my next attempt, but pistol guy will probably OHK Gorgi, as Redux changes include enemies preferring to shoot the hostages.

At this point I'll be welcome for any advice - as long as it works for redux/hard/tough-guy/STB and it's more usefull than "you don't have to save him to pass the mission" (I know that).

I've tried to install Talking Heads addon and THAT for a few days now, but to no avail. Despite RPU being installed and it's working well and the mods being properly extracted into the mods folder and added to mods_order.txt as per the instructions, the issue persists and nothing I've found on google seems to work.

This is my mod order:

rpu.dat

party_orders.dat

npc_armor.dat

rpu_czech.dat

rpu_french.dat

rpu_german.dat

rpu_hungarian.dat

rpu_italian.dat

rpu_polish.dat

rpu_portuguese.dat

rpu_russian.dat

rpu_russian_sound.dat

rpu_spanish.dat

rpu_enhanced_worldmap.dat

rpu_extended_flamer.dat

rpu_rifle_animations.dat

rpu_wakizashi_animations.dat

cassidy_head.dat

cassidy_voice_joey_bracken_hq.dat

rpu_improved_mysterious_stranger.dat

walk_speed_fix_low_fps.dat

goris_fast_derobing_low_fps.dat

talking_heads.dat

talking_heads_audio.dat

fo2tweaks.dat

InventoryFilter.dat

Am I missing something obvious?

DISCLAIMER: I wouldn't necessarily want to see any of these two back and would prefer neweer villains

How would you bring either of these villains back in the modern series? They come back somehow? It's some sort of prequel? Or flashback? An episode of the show? Some spin-off material?

I have a couple ideas for Richardson. One of them is throughout the course of the shows 3rd season we learn the Enclave's current leader is one of the last people alive from Richardson's regime. They were the child of a member of his cabinet and so got to be mentored by the president, with the goal of making the kid a worthy ally and successor. Also to create a front against their parent who is against Richardson's racist policies.

He then stages the murder of the parent while on a mission to the mainland and has it framed on the wastelanders, traumatizing the child and using it to prove to him that "mutants" deserve to be extinct. That child grows up to lead the Enclave in the Fallout show and continue what Richardson started, but hey that's just my idea!

Mostly just title. I'm on my first playthrough of Fallout 2 after beating Fallout 1 about a week ago and really enjoying my experience. I'm just a little lost and getting frustrated.

I'm currently Level 8, travelling with Sulik and Vic as companions, and mostly focusing on a Small Guns build. I've done all the normal stuff you would have done as of now by following the main quest (including Modoc). I now have the option to go to Redding, New Reno, Broken Hills, or Vault 15. I attempted to follow the quest for the GECK and go to Vault 15, only to be met with enemies obviously far too difficult for me to fight, so I figured I'm meant to go elsewhere, only to find the exact same situation in Redding.

Some side complaints: Terrible accuracy despite 111% in Small Guns, lack of powerful weaponry/armor, really useless companions (I had to ditch Lenny because he literally did next to nothing, and I'm close to doing the same to Vic).

Am I underlevelled? Am I missing something? Any pointers would be greatly appreciated! I've mostly enjoyed the game so far, but I'm getting pretty frustrated with my lack of progress and the difficulty, which sucks because I adored my experience with FO1.

OK I definitely missed this opportunity when I played this game years ago or I completely forgot I ever did this. This is probably one of the greatest moments this game has ever had. Also think you restoration project team. This game is so much better with this mod.

Somebody posted here one scene from fo2 and driven by it I was wondering what are yours favorite references/easter eggs etc. in the game? Maybe I would find about some " new ones".

Mine is Bridgekeeper ( monthy python )

This mod has made my latest playthrough much more enjoyable so far. I look forward to meeting and talking to all these characters along my journey. Major props for whoever’s idea it was to basically make Krom a tanned Peter Steele. Some of the voice actors are genuinely top notch.

Hi I finally am doing my first ever play through of fallout the original. I’m having a blast playing it I’m wondering if y’all have any recommendations or suggestions on what to do in game? I just made it to necropolis in search of the water chip.

Hi everyone, i've recently decided to give linux a go for the first time, everything was really simple to get used to at first but one thing has been bothering me, idk if i'm just too stupid to figure it out or anything, but i just can't figure how to install rpu on fallout 2 on linux, can y'all give me a hand please? Currently using bazzite os.

Hey everyone 😄

We all know there are already some great ways to play the classic Fallouts in 2026, and on PC I think the Community Edition is the best there is. I've always been a vanilla guy and never had problems on desktop. Where I always got stuck was playing on the go. Getting the games running on a phone or tablet with the existing options (fo2.exe for example) always felt a bit clunky to me, and keeping the same character across devices was even more of a hassle.

So I worked on a little passion project, kind of my own homage to these games and their stories. I wanted to play on any device and keep the same save: start on my PC, then before bed pick up the tablet or phone and carry on from where I left off.

TL;DR: https://daniel-vaz.github.io/overseer-console/

It's the Fallout 1 and Fallout 2 Community Edition engines (all credit to alexbatalov and the rest of the amazing CE contributors) compiled to WebAssembly, so they run in the browser on a desktop, tablet or phone. On top of that I added some quality-of-life things for playing on the go:

• Fallout, Fallout 2 and Fallout Et Tu
  • For Et Tu you give it the zip exactly as you downloaded it, and it puts everything together from your Fallout 1 and 2 files. You don't have to set anything up by hand.
• Touch controls that keep the original UI
  • I didn't want to rework the interface and lose the look of the original. Instead there are tap, drag and hold gestures, plus a few buttons on the sides for inventory, map, character, Pip-Boy, end turn, quick save/load and so on. A keyboard pops up when the game asks for text, and you can swipe to scroll inventories.
• Better saving
  • Autosave every 10 minutes into slots 8 to 10, so it never overwrites your own saves. F6/F7 quick save and quick load. Every slot keeps its older versions in case you need to roll back, and deleted saves are kept for a week.
• A save editor
  • Stats, skills, perks, inventory, karma, quests, companions, world map and more. It uses the game's own rules and art, and every change can be undone.
• Picture options
  • Original 640x480, widescreen or high resolution. There's also a fast forward.
• Browser App
  • You can add it to your home screen like an app, and it works offline once a game is loaded.

You still need to own the games (GOG\Steam\Epic). Nothing is hosted or uploaded. You point it at your install folder (or a zip of it), and it copies the files into your browser's local storage. There's no server and no account.

To carry saves between devices you can link your own Dropbox if you want to. You create a small free Dropbox app yourself (it takes a couple of minutes and the steps are in the docs [ https://github.com/Daniel-Vaz/overseer-console/blob/main/docs/dropbox.md ]), so your saves go to a folder in your own Dropbox and never pass through anything of mine. From the save screen you upload a save on one device and fetch it on the other. You can also keep the game folder in that same Dropbox folder, which is the easiest way to get the full game, music included, onto a phone. The exported saves are normal Fallout save files, so you can also drop them into a regular PC install.

I know not everyone likes AI-assisted projects, so I'd rather be upfront and say that I built this with a lot of help from AI. That said, I've been playing this way for the past few days and I'm having a blast. It's free and non-commercial (the CE licence requires that anyway), and the code is all on GitHub.

I mostly made this for myself, but I wanted to share it in case someone else finds it useful. All feedback is welcome, so feel free to open an issue or feature request on GitHub: https://github.com/Daniel-Vaz/overseer-console/

Hello,
You guys are probably tired of answering this question, but Im having trouble finding a definitive answer.
Im gonna play Fallout 1 for the first time, from what I understand Et Tu allows you to play Fallout 1 in Fallout 2's engine ? Is it better than just playing Fallout 1 vanilla ?

Ive heard about this other thing called Fixt, but its apparently outdated ?

There's also this thing called TeamX ?

Me personnaly im just looking for the most vanilla way to play the game, but with some quality of life like high resolution support, high framerate support, ability to remap keys that kind of stuff

Thank you in advance!